As Driftwood LNG advances its outreach efforts within the local community, officials associated with the project are encouraging residents to continue bringing forth questions or concerns. The company provides mail, phone and email contact information on its website — driftwoodlng.com.
Documentation of past dialogue is included in the company’s filings with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Public comments have run the gamut this month from support to opposition, according to the filings. Company officials said the responses are the result of an extensive public outreach campaign. And in the months since the project was initially announced, Driftwood has communicated with hundreds of people through four open houses and several thousand more through letters, according to officials.
“We want to be a part of this community and as such we want honest feedback and have worked hard to swiftly answer inquiries that have come through via our website, phone lines and FERC comments,” Joi Lecznar, public affairs and communication representative for Tellurian Investments, owners of Driftwood LNG, said in an email.
The company’s multibillion-dollar LNG production and export terminal will be located south of Lake Charles and will consist of five plants exporting 26 million tons of LNG per year. Each plant will have one gas pretreatment unit and four liquefaction units.
Since Aug. 1, Driftwood has received letters of support from residents in Lake Charles, Westlake, Elton, Eunice and Iowa — all of which have been included in the company’s FERC filings. Several of the letters cited the project’s potential economic impact as being beneficial to the area.
Other filings consisted primarily of questions from residents affected by the facility’s construction. Two of the comments asked for more information about a pipeline affecting certain property boundaries.
Local activist Charlie Atherton has several comments listed in the company’s filings with FERC. Atherton said he has been in contact with the company since the project was announced months ago, and while he still has unanswered questions, he has occasionally been provided responses with updated information.
Atherton said the open houses, which company officials said took place in Sulphur, Oberlin, Eunice and Lake Charles between July 18 and July 21, were of little help to landowners. Atherton credited FERC officials with providing accurate information about the project and encouraging him to e-file his comments “so they may become part of the administrative record for the Driftwood LNG Project.”
Driftwood officials said the terminal’s construction will last seven years, beginning in 2018 and ending in 2025. The company is expected to file its formal application to construct the facility in March 2017, and pending regulatory approval, construction could start no later than March 2018.
In the questions and connections section of the Driftwood website is an area where residents can sign up for email alerts and a monthly newsletter. Emails can be sent to info@driftwoodlng.com and general inquiries can be made by calling 832-962-4027 or 888-321-7260.
Landowners can submit inquiries by calling 855-327-9519 or emailing landowners@driftwoodlng.com.
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